Dictionary definition: Metempsychosis

Dictionary definition: metempsychosis
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English;      312 words ...metempsychosis noun plural metempsychoses L16 Late Latin (from Greek metempsukhōsis ... new body of the same or a different species. Belief in metempsychosis was a feature of the ancient sect of Pythagoreans and is ...

Article: The mimesis of metempsychosis in Ulysses.(analysis of ...
Philological Quarterly;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... course, entrains the doctrine of metempsychosis or "transmigration of souls" (77 ... critics, however, consider Joycean metempsychosis primarily in terms of an Ovidian metamorphosis ... To Patrick McCarthy, the notion of metempsychosis relates "the world of Ulysses to ...

Article: History, narrative, and authority: Poe's "Metzengerstein.' (Edgar ...
College Literature;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... Poe's strategy hinges on the dual metempsychosis that occurs in the tale. On the surface ... Metzengerstein. But a second, less apparent, metempsychosis takes place between Metzengerstein ... narrator toward "the doctrines of the Metempsychosis" and "the words of an ancient prophecy ...

Article: Marvell's metamorphic 'Fleckno.' (Andrew Marvell; poem)
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Wyman Herendeen views Donne's "Metempsychosis: The Progresse of the Soule" as ... he says, in the "literature of metempsychosis," which traces the movement of the ... Metamorphoses).(3) Metamorphosis and metempsychosis "have similar formal and thematic ...

Encyclopedia entry: transmigration of souls
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ...transmigration of souls or metempsychosis [Gr.,=change of soul ... entered the animals' bodies. Metempsychosis is a fundamental doctrine of ... oneness. The Celtic version of metempsychosis does not have the ethical aspect ...

Article: An Italian Werewolf in London: Lycanthropy and The Duchess of ...
Early Modern Literary Studies;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Otten 8). Transformation, Metempsychosis, and Theology Animal transformations ... transformation was the doctrine of metempsychosis, that is, the migration of ... another body after death. Metempsychosis was exemplified in the teachings ...

Article: Continued Existence, Reincarnation, and the Power of Sympathy in ...
Journal of European Studies;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... guises, including progressive metempsychosis (rebirth in progressively higher forms), regressive metempsychosis (rebirth in lower forms, often ... previous existence), and circular metempsychosis (reincarnation in a series of ...